Tolerance cannot be measured in terms of degrees of intolerance. I am essentially opposed to burning books even when they incite others to violence. But freedom is either an absolute or it is conditioned on not inciting others to violence. Anything else is rationalized bigotry.

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Sunday, January 18, 2015

French anti-Semitism and Muslim Violence (PART 2)

In the
Spectator Magazine on the 9th of January, Isabel Hardman wrote of
the shop killers that “the attackers appear to be killing people not for what
they have been doing, but for who they are.”The Koran commands the faithful to strike the infidels neck.For 1,400 years we have kept our silence,
refusing to criticize those people who take their inspiration from a book their
followers insist is the path to enlightenment and peace.

Many
progressives will find any excuse for the killers – whether it is cartoons
depicting the Muslim prophet, eternal Jewish guilt, or support for the only
Jewish state. None of them seem willing to stop and think before they appease
the bigotry that suffuses global Muslim thinking.

France is a militantly secular nation and it has been thus since
the French Revolution of 1789. It has not prevented the nation which is
overwhelmingly Catholic from practicing faith as an individual statement of
identity.The provocations at Charlie Hebdo
were as predictable as they were offensive. But they were no different from the
assaults that the magazine intermittently struck at Jewish and Christian
values.

And Western Europe alongside of the English speaking world
has been far more offensive towards its Jewish population without a Jewish
recourse to violence.If it has had any
effect, it has been to encourage Jews with no answers to this discrimination to
assimilate into society, breaking down Jewish cohesion and destroying
communities. It is an ongoing act of ethnic cleansing that we seem powerless to
prevent.And of equal importance, it has
spurred on racists and religious bigots whose opposition to Jewish independence
has long past blurred the line between opposition to Israel and antisemitism. And yet,
no violence from the Jewish community against those who incite against them and
too often murder them has taken place.

So our
standards are applied selectively. We demand subservience from Jews and are
subservient to Islamists. Provocation and incitement against Jews is growing
everywhere. It is led by universities, the media and populist politicians while
we treat every aspect of Islamic faith as if all discussion of its history and
its crimes were an unacceptable assault on a revered earthly idol.

We are
being coerced, selectively, into renouncing our freedom.

It is
untrue that disaffected youth who are under-employed or unemployed become foot
soldiers for terrorism. The dedicated cadres of so called alienated Muslims are
far more likely to have grown up in middle class homes, prosperous and
comfortable. If their relationship with us is conflicted, if their relative
affluence is impacted by anything, it is the clash of civilizations enunciated
in Samuel Huntington’s book of the same name which described the challenges of
the post-Cold War new world order.The
conflict is defined by the clash between the values of our Judeo-Christian
civilization in Western society and the Islamic value system of the Muslim
world.

If we are
unwilling or frightened to discuss the source of terrorism we will never defeat
it and probably, it will defeat us.

Our
establishment press is cursed by its selective fear to offend.The headline by the London Times that “France is
paying price for pushing six million Muslims to the margins" summarized
the prevalent idea that personal choice does not exist.That is a Muslim religious 'value' which
negates our own Western way of life.It
says to the religiously frustrated that murder is acceptable; to fight
discrimination through Western law is but an occasional tool of those who want
to censor all discussion.

The Left
wing-Liberal Nazis at WikiLeaks blamed “the Jews” for the atrocities committed
in France.The BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions)
Nazis also blamed the Jews – well, in fact they blamed the Zionist Mossad.This tactic of conspiracy is an important
part of any fascist arsenal which desires to cloud the truth and obscure
personal judgment by using prejudicial memes that cater to cultural
stereotypes.

Throughout
Europe and including Britain,
2014 yielded the largest surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes on record since
World War 2. The European continent murdered almost its entire Jewish
population and yet, it has learnt nothing from those dark years that preceded the
Shoah, save the ease with which the bigot continues to be able to blame the
victim for his or her ‘fate’.

I said in
PART 1, our walls no longer have chains so we no longer feel bound by the laws
of society that connected us all either to speak responsibly or to personally
accept the consequences for our actions.

The
consequences for Charlie Hebdos actions are now clear. The debate over whether
the actions of their staff went too far in demonstrating a compulsive need to
exercise freedom of expression at any cost has already been hijacked by the
establishment press to appease Islam. Alan Johnson describes this appeasement
as “The veil of euphemism that hangs over the debate about Islam and its
bigots.” He says we must lift the veil. But he is too kind. There is precious
little criticism voiced, it is what makes grandstanding more visible when it
occurs.

Intimidation
works. Fear compels us towards intellectual and physical cowardice and impels
us towards a dereliction of our democratic obligation to confront those people
and groups whose goal it is to extinguish our freedom.

If
xenophobia and panic do not destroy immigration and cause us to re-erect borders
across national boundaries everywhere, nations will have to start honestly
facing up to the multiple threats posed by Islamism without being frightened to
offend Muslim communities.Ignoring
problems posed by the clash of civilizations is creating ever greater levels of
social unrest across Europe and that unrest will spread to North
America.

Marine Le Pen,
leader of the fascist Front National is ahead of both of her Conservative and
Left wing rivals for the French national elections.After the twin massacres and the murder of
the policewoman Le Pen’s popularity will soar.Geert Wilder MP, banned from traveling to Britain
while Muslim Nazis are free to travel to and incite violence in the UK, could be
the next Dutch prime minister.In Greece, the
neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has for now, been eclipsed by the fascist left in
the guise of Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left). Demonstrations are
spreading across Germany
in support of a fight against German ‘Islamization.’

The French
reality is that unrestricted Muslim immigration drove the economic engine but
at the price of abandoning France’s
Jewish community. Successive French governments ignored incitement, dismissing
it as anti-Israelism, or not caring if it was antisemitism. When it is
understood to be opposition to Jewish independence it can only ever be
interpreted as racism.Dieudonné M'bala
M'bala has been convicted of anti-Semitic incitement eight times and yet he
continues to be a hugely popular anti-establishment figure.He has been instrumental in making French
antisemitism once more openly fashionable. The governments mishandling of him
has been so inept, so incompetent we must question their commitment to ridding France of this
home grown contagion. Israeli journalist Ron Ben –Yishai describes French
complicity in the environment to which French Jews find themselves today as
“unforgivable complacency.”

On Friday
9th January 2015 French authorities announced the closure of the central Jewish
precinct of Paris (the Marais).Apparently the irony of recreating the Jewish ghetto was missed by the
French government.The Great Synagogue
of Paris did not hold Shabbat (Sabbath) services on the Friday night for the
first time since World War 2.Fear is a
legal component that defines ethnic cleansing.

Unless
people appreciate the threat to their freedom they rarely react to undo what
they have already created.But France could
begin by revoking the right of Muslims to have Halal food served in state
schools; reintroduce pork as the only meat product available in state
schools.It is only when people fear
what they have already lost and what they may yet lose that they willingly,
even pro-actively consider moderating their position towards their competitors
(or their enemies).People who feel
weakened do not make maximalist demands.Cease all social security transfers to any group or individual classified
as racially / religiously / politically extreme.

Freedom is
a gift; we should not have to pay for its detractors.

The
alternative to acting now is that intermittent acts of terror will only
increase in frequency, particularly if the debate as to its causes are stifled
or because of intimidation, suppressed.

It is only
when the bigot fears the consequences of negative exposure more than he (or
she) fears death itself that peace and security for everyone will be possible
to achieve.